H STORY playfully blurs the line between drama and documentary as it examines the impact of history (both world history and cinema history) on contemporary lives. Suwa plays himself as a filmmaker struggling to remake Alain Resnais’ classic Hiroshima Mon Amour. He’s hired Béatrice Dalle and Hiroaki Umano to play the parts originally played by Emanuélle Riva and Eji Okada. I integrated Resnais’ film in my film not because I liked it, but because I couldn’t avoid it. I consider it as medium with which I could maintain a dialogue with. Resnais’ film opened a window to Europe over Asia. I also wanted to open that very same window, but in the other direction. (Nobuhiro Suwa)
